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Re: Foobar2000

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Post by dailykoder »

calvinmorrison wrote: post #5

DeaDBeeF is a clone for Linux.

I do like deadbeef. It's a nice player, but what I absolutely hate about it is that ctrl-w closes the current playlist (well, that's the hotkey I close my tabs with, too, so that's fine), but you cannot restore that (or am I missing some feature?). And I am a lazy guy that doesn't save his playlist regularly.

Is there some feature to make it ask me if I want to close a playlist or just disable that hotkey? I sometimes get frustrated when the wrong window has focus. I was even thinking about implementing such thing myself, but somehow never got around to do it

Edit: Also iirc the shuffle function in deadbeef is weird, because it always shuffled tracks in the same order (if the playlist did not change and you started on the same track). It somehow has a 'shuffle' and 'random'. Maybe that's intended

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by Quiark »

kichik wrote: post #8
calvinmorrison wrote: post #5

DeaDBeeF is a clone for Linux.

That's a funny name considering it was the Winamp creator's nickname and Foobar2000 itself is a Winamp clone.

in what way is foobar2000 a winamp clone

the only similarity I could see is that it plays music

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by globular-toast »

This was the one piece of software I missed when I made the switch to Linux 15 years ago. Not enough to miss Windows, of course. It worked in Wine but didn't feel quite right. It was sort of the end of me building a curated music collection. It takes time and I just moved on to other things. In all this time I've never found anything as good as foobar2000 was back then and my music collection has languished.

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by jdc0589 »

hlandau wrote: post #16

foobar2000 is so good, and so unmatched, especially with its plugins ecosystem, I use it for my music playback needs under wine on Linux.

plugins were great. Measured the speakers at my desk (I built them). generated an inverse impulse response filter, and fed it through a plugin to do full frequency equalization. It was a fun project to play with full range speakers that had no passive filter network whatsoever, all done via software.

Re: Foobar2000

#26

Post by imiric »

It's great to see that fb2k is still around and well :)

It's remarkable how they've kept the same UI since its inception, 21 years ago. It was clean, simple and intuitive back then, and still is today. Same goes for the website, now that I think of it. A true testament that simplicity trumps trend-chasing.

It was my main music player after Winamp released the awful version 3.0, and I never looked back. I don't use Windows much these days, but mpv serves me well as a barebones audio player, and occasionally I do use Quod Libet on Linux, which has similar design sensibilities as fb2k.

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by notpushkin »

kichik wrote: post #8
calvinmorrison wrote: post #5

DeaDBeeF is a clone for Linux.

That's a funny name considering it was the Winamp creator's nickname and Foobar2000 itself is a Winamp clone.

Not sure how fb2k is a Winamp clone.

There's a Winamp clone for Linux though, Audacious: https://audacious-media-player.org/

Re: Foobar2000

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Post by tryauuum »

It's kind of strange I have never seen any other player where you can just click on a folder and play music from it. Like two clicks, one on a folder (which loads the list of tracks) and second to start playing this list

of course it's doable in any player but not with such ease

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